Mortal cannot look at sun since God's name is engraved on it

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Mortal cannot look at sun since God's name is engraved on it.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A733.2

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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Filed under Heat and light of the sun.

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Why sunlight is so much stronger than moonlight Two faces of the sun: fire, directed toward earth; hail, directed toward heaven Beams of light are snares with which sun is tied to earth. Cf. A728 Sun dries out earth with its heat

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